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" Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "

Thomas A. Edison

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" What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth. "

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" There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons. "

" An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. "

" I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992. "

" Failure has gone to his head. "

" True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream. "

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" One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life. "

" Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. "

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. "

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" People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. "

" Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. "

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

Montgomery Clift

" If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. "

" Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure. "

" The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure. "

" There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. "

" Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail. "

Dara Khosrowshahi

" All war represents a failure of diplomacy. "

" Failure is success if we learn from it. "

" I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. "

Loudon Wainwright III

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. "

" If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. "

" Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things. "

" The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable. "

" Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. "

Benjamin Franklin